Tag: drug smuggling
Wanted man calls into talk show from Jamaica
(CNS): A man claiming to be Shavan Claude Brown (28), who is wanted by the RCIPS in connection with a drug boat found last week on Cayman Brac, called into a local talk show on Monday from Jamaica, claiming that he was not on the island at the time the boat was seized. On Sunday, […]
Fugitive from drug boat on Cayman Brac identified
(CNS) UPDATED 7:00pm Sunday: The RCIPS say that Shavan Claude Brown, who is wanted in connection with the drug boat found on the south side of Cayman Brac on Thursday, is still on the run. However, as a result of reports made to the police and other operational activity related to finding Brown, two people […]
Fugitive on Cayman Brac believed to be armed
(CNS): Police are still actively looking for a man wanted in relation to the drug boat seized on Cayman Brac on Thursday and say they now have reason to believe that he may be armed. Members of the public are advised not to approach the fugitive, described as short and slim, with a dark complexion and […]
Drug boat found on Brac, two arrested, one on the run
(CNS) UPDATED: Police say a second man has been arrested in relation to the drug boat seizure on Cayman Brac this morning. The third man is still on the run. The boat and drugs were found on a beach on the south side of the island this morning, Thursday, 22 August, and the first man […]
Crown: Couple imported fentanyl in FedEx package
(CNS): A George Town couple charged with drug importation and money laundering used FedEx to bring in a quantity of ganja and 51 fentanyl pills, totalling over five grams, in a package marked as containing boots, t-shirts and a small rug, the crown told a jury on Tuesday. Renae Hamilton and her now estranged partner, […]
Ex-customs officer’s appeal on drug conviction fails
(CNS): Former customs officer David Lobo (39) must continue to serve a 16-year prison sentence after his appeal against a 2019 conviction for importing almost two kilos of cocaine was rejected on Thursday. In January 2019, Lobo was found guilty of smuggling the drug into the Cayman Islands in liquid form, in condoms and swallowed […]
Addiction led nurse to bring cocaine for wedding trip
(CNS): Yoojin Oh, a nurse from the United States, was fined $11,038 by the Grand Court on Friday for trying to smuggle more than 7 grams of cocaine into the Cayman Islands last month when she arrived for a destination wedding, which she missed. Justice Cheryll Richards accepted that Oh had brought the drug with […]
CBC arrests 26 at ORIA with drugs and guns
(CNS): In the two-month period between 15 December and 15 February, Customs and Border Control arrested 26 people at the Owen Roberts International Airport entering or exiting the Cayman Islands carrying drugs or weapons, plus one person for smoking on a plane. Officials said the interceptions, which included ganja, ecstasy, ammunition and guns, were based […]
Two arrested for smuggling ganja and exotic birds
(CNS) UPDATED FRIDAY: Two Jamaican men aged 38 and 59 who were arrested following an interception at sea by the coastguard earlier this week have been charged with the importation of Ganja. The men appeared in court Thursday and were remanded in custody until their next appearance at the end of the month. Both men […]
Prison officer arrested for smuggling ganja into jail
(CNS): A senior prison officer who was caught smuggling contraband into HMP Northward was arrested on Wednesday, 28 February, during a joint operation by HM Cayman Islands Prison Service, the Department of Public Safety Communications and the police. The RCIPS did not specify what the contraband was or the name of the officer involved. However, […]
US tourist jailed for 6½ yrs for smuggling trace of fentanyl
(CNS): In the first successful prosecution of an individual for smuggling the highly addictive and dangerous opioid fentanyl into the Cayman Islands, a US national was given a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence in court Tuesday. Adrian Frederick Scales (27) was convicted of importing 0.09 grams of fentanyl in Summary Court last summer. Scales was travelling to Cayman as […]
